I don't know how I overlooked this, but CIO|Insight posted some research last month on the tenure of CIO's, which it discovered was 5.7 years. Sadly, the research did not focus on public sector CIO's. So, as Public CIO editor Tod Newcombe points out, the average length of service for state CIO's remains unknown but is almost certainly much lower.

Om Malik continues to talk about network neutrality. He recently posted about the absence of some of the bigger Web companies on the issue. Today, notes that Tim Berners-Lee has is speaking out. Malik asks what happens to start-ups and small application developers.